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The spying is not so much about national security - that's why we have 16 other spying agencies. The NSA spying is a service intended to control the citizens, just as Orwell had predicted. For example: getting a job with a decent salary may become hard to get if/when corporations can find about one's secrets which they WILL use to play to win the hiring game. The policing agencies, the ultimate steroid-driven alpha bros, will use your secrets to spy on those around you, then, of course, to betray you. And on, ad infinitum. That's why Mr. Snowden is a hero of epic proportions. The attacks on American soil will stop when the US will remove its 1000+ miitary bases, end its inept meddling in the affairs of others, return the troops home and have them learn to defend the American soil from the home base.